12 Arthur Street, a multi-tenant building in London, has recently installed Fastlane plus turnstiles from Integrated Design. The building is home to many prestige companies, including Prudential and Vanquis Bank that needed to be protected from unauthorised entry.
Arthur Street Management Company, who looks after the building needed a solution to protect the clients in the building, and create a safe, secure workplace for staff and visitors. As the system was to be installed covering the lifts in the marble reception area it needed to have a fast throughput and be easy for people to use, so not to create a bottleneck in the limited space. First Security was brought on board to provide a suitable solution. They recommended Fastlane turnstiles from Integrated Design after visited an existing installation in the city. First Security were so impressed with the proven reliability and speed of throughput of the Fastlane range, 2 lanes of Fastlane plus R400 MA barrier-arm turnstiles were installed, including a wider lane to allow for wheelchair access.
Due to the limited space available and the requirement for 2 lanes, Fastlane plus barrier arm optical turnstiles were the ideal choice over traditional speedgates such as the Fastlane Glasswing. The benefit of having a drop arm as opposed to a retracting glass wing means that the pedestal width is greatly reduced thereby maximising the number of lanes in a narrow aperture. Retracting glass wing based products have much wider pedestals compared to a drop arm type unit as the glass barriers need to retract inside the pedestals and the result is they can be up to 500 mm as opposed to the 162 mm for a Fastlane plus drop arm unit.
Fastlane plus is a state of the art barrier-arm optical turnstile which uses optical technology to monitor the passage of every individual entering and leaving the building, and the fast-acting barrier arms physically deter any unauthorised access. The combination of these features coupled with the INet 7 access control system on site, help prevent the most common of access control violations such as tailgating, pass-back and unauthorised entry, while maintaining a fast throughput of up to 1 person per second.
"Fastlane plus ticked all the right boxes, the optical technology and drop down barrier arm offered the level of security and fast throughput we required, while the unit's narrow footprint allowed us to have 2 lanes, including one wide enough for a wheelchair, in a gap where we would only have been able to fit one lane of a traditional glass speedgate. The extra lane has ensured there are no hold ups for authorised staff gaining access to the building which has resulted in better user acceptance." Said Dave Fanshawe, First Security.
